A Look At Emirates’ Longest One-Stop Flights This October

Emirates operates a fleet made up of only two types of widebody aircraft
– Airbus A380s
and Boeing 777s
– although A350s and Boeing 787s are on order. Emirates also operates some of the longest nonstop and one-stop flights in the world (these are mostly to Latin America and Oceania). According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, these are the longest one-stop Emirates
flights scheduled for October 2024.

5

Dubai – Singapore – Melbourne

Dubai to Melbourne via Singapore is 7,230 miles

The fifth-longest one-stop Emirates flight is from Dubai International Airport
to Melbourne in Australia via Singapore’s Changi Airport. Melbourne Airport (locally known as Tullamarine Airport) is the main airport of Melbourne and the state of Victoria (Melbourne is the second-largest city in Australia).

Singapore’s Changi Airport is noted for being one of the most highly rated airports
in the world and a major hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

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The scheduled flight time on the Boeing 777 is 16 hours and 20 minutes, with the scheduled layover being just 1 hour and 35 minutes. Alternatively, Emirates also serves the Dubai to Melbourne route with nonstop flights using its Airbus A380 double-deck aircraft (while the scheduled travel time is 13 hours and 20 minutes).

4

Dubai – Miami – Bogotá

Dubai to Bogotá in Colombia via Miami is 8,472 miles

Emirates’ fourth-longest one-stop flight is from Dubai to the Colombian capital city of Bogotá via Miami International Airport. The flight has a scheduled two-hour layover and a total flight time of 21 hours and 40 minutes. The Boeing 777 serving the route has a capacity of 354 seats per flight, for a total of 10,974 seats for the month of October.

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Bogotá’s airport – El Dorado International Airport, is the second-busiest airport in South America and the third busiest in Latin America (as measured by passenger traffic). It is by far the busiest airport in Colombia and accounts for around half of the country’s total air traffic.

3

Dubai – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires

Dubai to Buenos Aires via Rio de Janeiro is 8,490 miles

The third-longest Emirates one-stop flight touches down at Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport on its way to Buenos Aires’ Ministro Pistarini International Airport/Ezeiza International Airport. As Argentina’s main airport, it handles a whopping 85% of the country’s international traffic.

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This is the only route on this list not to be operated daily—with 17 operations scheduled for October; it is operated every other day. The scheduled flight time is 19 hours and 50 minutes, including the 1-hour and 35-minute layover in Rio. The total distance of the route is 8,490 miles with some 5,290 seats available for October.

2

Dubai – Sydney – Christchurch

Dubai to Christchurch, New Zealand via Sydney is 8,719 miles

The second-longest one-stop flight is from Dubai to the South Island’s largest city of Christchurch after touching down in Sydney (Australia’s largest city). The city of Christchurch and the Christchurch Airport are by far the smallest on this list. While Christchurch Airport is the main airport in the South Island and the second busiest in New Zealand after Auckland, the airport is still small and landing in the massive A380 feels strange as it taxis up to the seemingly-deminutive terminal.

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The route’s total distance is 8,719 miles, and operations are daily. A total of 15,004 seats are scheduled for October. Often, only a fraction of the giant aircraft’s 484 seats are filled as it completes the second leg of the journey across the Tasman Sea to Christchurch. Emirates provides the only connection between Christchurch and international destinations beyond the Asia-Pacific region (United’s San Francisco flights count as Asia-Pacific).

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1

Dubai – Barcelona – Mexico City

Dubai to Mexico via Barcelona is 8,898 miles

At 8,898 miles, Emirates’ longest one-stop flight is from Dubai to Mexico City via Barcelona in Spain. Emirates offers daily flights with a Boeing 777 and is scheduled to have 9,362 seats for the month of October. According to Cirium, this flight has the lowest seat capacity of any aircraft on this list, at only 302 seats.

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Strangely enough, this longest Emirates one-stop flight is only a little longer than Emirates’ longest nonstop flight (Dubai to Auckland at 8,823 miles). It is also considerably shorter than the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight (Singapore Airlines New York City to Singapore at 9,537 miles). The longest-range passenger aircraft can service any route on this list nonstop.